The decree preventing aid groups from distributing food to migrants in Calais has been deemed as "disproportionate" by a government commissioner who said the ban has "the effect of complicating the access to basic necessities of precarious populations".
Every year, hundreds of people go missing on their way to Europe. While the Mediterranean Sea is infamous for being one of the deadliest migration routes, other places such as the Sahara desert are also extremely dangerous. InfoMigrants spoke with Lucile Marbeau, spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
At least 10,000 migrants employed by Italian farms live in substandard housing, according to a report published on Tuesday. In these settlements, basic services such as access to water or electricity are nonexistent. A phenomenon that favors the exploitation of migrants.
Two years ago Franck* was living in difficult conditions in a migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos. Now, he and his family have been offered a home in a welcome center in France and they have a future to look forward to at last.
The migrant camp at Palos de la Frontera, in the southern Spanish region of Huelva, was ravaged by a fire at the weekend. About 100 shacks were destroyed and one person, suffering from burns to the arm, had to be admitted to hospital. The camp was home to hundreds of undocumented migrant workers who were picking fruits and vegetables in the region.
What exactly is this outpost set up by the French authorities on Italian soil, close to the border with France? Police agents there hold migrants they pick up before they can enter France illegally for a few hours. Migrants who are held in this place receive a document refusing them entry to France and are handed over to the Italian police. Local migrant rights associations have denounced the process, saying it is illegal.
Authorities in Laayoune, Morocco have been subjecting sub-Saharan migrants to constant harassment, an Ivorian in the city has told InfoMigrants. He said scores of migrants are being arrested and detained every day and "danger is everywhere."
Samir* worked for over a year using false papers for the DPD delivery group in the Paris region. Frustrated by the working conditions, which he describes as "slavery", the Algerian started a strike with 70 other colleagues, who were also undocumented. For four months, the strikers have been demanding to have their situation regularized.
The three far-right candidates in the French presidential election – Marine Le Pen, Éric Zemmour and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan – have made immigration their main electoral issue. They all want to abolish State Medical Aid, birthright citizenship and family reunification. But are their proposals actually feasible?
Daniel Merla is a priest in the small town of Siret, on the Romanian side of the border with Ukraine. An estimated 70,000 people have fled here since the Russian attack on Ukraine started on February 24. Every evening, Merla swaps his religious attire for that of a humanitarian to assist displaced Ukrainians. He has found himself crying every day, he says.
In northeastern Romania, a steady stream of displaced people has been pouring through the Siret border crossing point. Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, 63,000 people have arrived in this small town of 8,000 inhabitants. The refugees can count on the solidarity of the Romanians, who are coming out in large numbers to welcome them.
A number of French presidential candidates and politicians have held up Greece as a model for its border and migrant management, including French presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. That's despite the "prison-like" conditions in Greek camps called out by rights groups and the practice of illegal pushbacks which has been condemned by the UN.